Real Hope Cafe Holbeck: Meet the people behind Leeds cafe helping asylum seekers and refugees become baristas

Real Hope café, opened in october 2022, produces a safe space for refugees to learn new skills such as free barista lessons, and sessions to ease the volunteers into life in the UK, including conversations about their rights.Designed to be run by asylum seekers and refugees and aims to prevent exploitation and teach new skills,"The only job you can get is cleaning – I can do much more,” said H. Learning a skill such as Barista gives refugee volunteers a sense of pride, confidnece and skills to intergrate into new country.